Crime

A clash resulted in the deaths of "eight soldiers" and "nine militants" in the Tirah area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, an intelligence officer says.

A court has heard a group of men with chequered pasts are not making up claims they were abused as boys in a state care home.

An Auckland man accused of stealing $2000 in goods from a toy store and threatening supermarket staff with a knife is facing 17 charges.

The flights Tingjun Cao purchased from Christchurch to Auckland, and then to Shanghai totalled just over $700, a court has heard.

Leslie Topia Barrowcliffe was involved in creating and sharing a video covertly taken of a threesome he and his rugby mate had with a woman in a shower.

One of the fires caused extensive damage to a building in Woolston.

The vessel has been served with an abatement notice, which is an order to stop.

The veteran broadcaster's lawyer told the media that Jones would "assert his innocence" in court.

The offenders threw a hammer and a wrench during the pursuit, damaging a patrol car and hurting bystanders.

Police are appealing for the public's help to catch masked offenders they say assaulted a Lower Hutt dairy owner on Sunday night.

Corrections is spending 'a hell of a lot of money' on drug treatment and rehabilitation programmes that make 'marginal differences', critics say.

Mark Mitchell promised to step down if there was no significant change in law and order statistics in his first 12 months. Audio

A witness said he threatened construction workers before driving away.

The security guard was stabbed in the torso after she confronted one of the teens about stealing.

New Zealanders have lost nearly $200m in the last year to scammers, it has been revealed. Audio